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Washingon-IOTD-Rep. F. Ed
ward Hebert (D-La.) has ac
cused the administration of
using servicemen as a "tool'
in its desegregation cam
paign. In a speech prepared for
delivery on the House floor,
Hebert attacked a defense de
partment order authorizing
military commanders to make
communities discriminating
against Negroes "off limits"
to servicemen.
Hebert termed the order
"economic blackmail." He
said it would also mean that
servicemen would no longer
have the right to determine
how they will spend their off
duty hours.
Hebert said that until
"now" servicemen felt that
they belonged to an organi
zation that existed to provide
security for the nation. In
stead, Hebert said, the mili
tary now has become a poli
tical tool "of the attorney
general, the President and
the secretary of defense."
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of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Just as a bank examiner
makes a periodic check of the records of your bank so does
Mr. A.B.C. visit our office at regular intervals to make an
exacting inspection and audit of our circulation records. The
circulation facts thus obtained are condensed in casy-to-read
audit reports which tell our advertisers: How much circu
lation we have; where it goes; how it was obtained; and many
other FACTS that tell advertisers what they get for their
money when they advertise in this newspaper.
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MEDFORD
Mosquitoes Force Farmers To
By MORT J. SULLIVAN
United Press International
Stonefort, 111. - tl'PD - Veno
mous hordes of salt water mos
quitoes are forcing farmers
to wear masks outside, keep
ing children inside and even
stampeding cattle around this
tiny southern Illinois commu
nity. "Be Alert . . . Mosquitoes
Crossing," reads a sign one
Stonefort farmer tacked up in
front of his home.
Around Stonefort, a town
that's about as mosquito-ridden
as the Panama Canal
Zone, folks don't tell fish
tales. They tell "skeeter"
stories.
"They (the mosquitoes) are
out for the blood of every
thing that moves," complained
farmer Ralph Beasley who is
suing Williamson county be
cause of the buzzers. "My cat
tle are sometimes stampeded,"
he said.
Farmer Loren Nolen wears
a wire-mesh hood along with
his overalls, leather jacket or
raincoat, and gloves - "even
in 100-degree weather."
The problem of swatting,
slapping and smacking mos
quitoes (it's not a sport) has
become so bad, it has reached
the governor's desk. A bill up
for his consideration appro
priates $10,000 for the state
public health department to
deal directly with the Stone
fort 'skeeters.
This Isn't Funny
"A lot of people think this
is funny," said the bill's
author, State Rep. C. L. Mc
Cormick of Vienna. "But
these mosquitoes have cut
milk production by harassing
dairy cows." And much more.
Farmer Charles Curtner
said "It's so bad the kids can't
get out in the yard to play."
Farmer Beasley, who owns
a modern home, farms 80
acres of land and Is principal
of a grade school, said "Some
people would like to sell their
property but can't because of
the mosquitoes." He and other
Stoneforters believe the strip
mines in the area are to
blame.
The area in the southeast
corner of Williamson county
is pock - marked with strip
mine soil banks and ponds
which the farmers say are
ideal breeding places for the
aedes sollicitan," more com
monly known as the salt wa
ter mosquito.
"We didn't have mosquitoes
until the coal companies came
in," Curtner said. "Nothing
has made me want to leave
this country more than this
The mosquitoes are thicker
than flies used to be when
flies were bad
The Audit Bureau of Circula
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is a member, is a cooperative,
nonprofit association of nearly
4,000 advertisers, advertising
agencies and publishers. Or
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and standards for auditing and
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"There's nothing we can do
but fight and kill them," he
said.
A celebration of sorts was
held recently when Beasley -using
a device which attracts
mosquitoes with black -blue
lights and then draws them
through a fan into a sack -bagged
2'i pounds. He said
the device - a Luralight - will
clear one acre of 'skeeters per
night.
But during the hot months
of June, July and August, the
humming plague just presses
on in its relentless task of
unnerving every other living
thing around.
Marion Poggas, health edu
cator for the Franklin -Williamson
bi-county health de-
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partment, said residents of
nearby West Frankfort and
Zeiglcr in Franklin county
also have their mosquitoes.
Drainage Costly
Poggas, a Zeiglcr resident,
said surveys by the state
recommend draining the
swampy areas where mosqui
toes breed or to spray the
areas with a mixture of kero
sene and insecticide. But that
takes money and Stonefort
doesn't have it.
Harvey J. Dominick, slate
entomologist, made a study of
the Stonefort 'skeeters and
promised he would make
recommendations on what can
be done in the area.
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Williamson county does not
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Stonefort, do not.
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What this means is that
rural Stonefort residents don't
know whom to ask for help.
Stonefort is the only area of
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ideal breeding places.
In Stonefort the "gob" is
spread like butter on bread.
Some areas of the strip are
decorated with evergreen
trees and other foliage. But
Beasley, who has a land de
valuation suit pending before
the Williamson county board
of review, feels the effort "is
only a token measure to satis
fy the government."
"It's one thing to cover up
an area with foliage," he said,
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that something is going to be
done about the mosquitoes,"
Beasley said. "They're not
something like flies that you
can walk out to the barn and
kill them by spraying or
swatting them. One person
can't do it."
"I woulcn't care if they
killed every sprig of grass if
they killed the mosquitoes,"
said Curtner of a proposal
that the state spray more in
the area.
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